Bye Bye Plastics Scare: Krill Can Digest Plastic
13th March 2018
Scientists have discovered Antarctic Krill can digest or at least break up lumps of plastic into even smaller lumps.
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The expression of concern about nano-plastic seems a stretch. Breaking micro-plastic into smaller chunks, making it available to even more versatile and varied microorganisms further down the food chain, is likely enough to effect complete clearance. Anyone who has ever owned a boat knows how difficult it is to protect fuel from contamination by the ubiquitous fungus and bacteria which thrives in sea water. It seems highly likely that at least one other organism, somewhere in the world’s oceans, has developed a taste for our plastic waste.